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check out MUMPS! Is this an arguement that writting c to impliment awk, SQL, html/java script using raw X11 to input/output data is easier to do correctly / ea
by sargstuff 4y ago
check out MUMPS!
Is this an arguement that writting c to impliment awk, SQL, html/java script using raw X11 to input/output data is easier to do correctly / easier to understand / less buggy than just webassembly compiling gawk and use with standard web browswer features such as html/javascript etc.? Former C stuff is few million lines of code, later is less than a 1000. (including sql & database features in awk). ARC & icon language ports (5th generation programming languages), under a few hundred.
The arc & icon language ports would be smaller, but smaller code base means easier to add/impliment user requested features and still keep things 'small/understandable'.
Would much rather deal with under a few hundred than the equivalent few million lines of code.
- analognoise 4y agoIf you rely on a web browser, aren't you still relying on millions of lines of code you're just not counting it?
- sargstuff 4y agoYes, but where is the focus on effort? Compiling for each possible OS / OS variation in order to run things to support the few hundred lines that actual do what interested in or just the few hundred lines of code that actually do what interested in.
- bjourne 4y ago"Aside from automatic memory management" C doesn't have automatic memory management.
- sargstuff 4y agouser/application level or os/runtime level? C doesn't have automatic granular memory management. sbrk, registers and runtime stack are forms of memory management. (unix inodes via pipes, OS envirnment, and files)